The National Preparedness Goal lays out the nationwide preparedness vision and identifies the core capabilities necessary to achieve that vision across the following five mission areas:

• Prevention
• Protection
• Mitigation
• Response
• Recovery

Successful achievement of the National Preparedness Goal will result in a secure and resilient nation with the capabilities required across the whole community to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk.

There is a National Framework for each mission area. In this course, we are focusing on the Protection Framework which relates to the Protection mission area.